In the article on Struts URLs for Perfectionists I described one way of defining the action mappings for a Struts web application. One of Struts’ double-edged swords is that there are several ways to do this, each with its pros and cons. This article considers a few alternatives. (more…)

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Recently we were redesigning the views for a web application. The previous version used JSP files and Struts tiles. In trying to be as standards-compliant as possible, we decided that our pages should generate XHTML and so it made sense to write them as JSP documents, the fancy name for .jspx files. (more…)

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What’s the right way to do confirmation messages in a web application after the user has done a database insert or update - like ‘Customer details updated’ after a permanent change? This article describes on approach that works well with Struts. (more…)

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